Colloquium - Dr. George Tsai

December 4, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki C-308

芒鈧揜ESPECT AND THE EFFICACY OF BLAME芒鈧 What moral psychological conditions enable blame to be effective - to modify the thoughts, attitudes, and motives of the blamed? Professor Tsai argues that blame芒鈧劉s efficacy depends not only on the blamed agent芒鈧劉s acknowledgement of the justificatory force of the negative moral evaluation blame involves; it may also depend on the blamed agent芒鈧劉s background interest in having the blaming agent芒鈧劉s respect. Understanding the role of respect in furthering blame芒鈧劉s efficacy allows us to address a puzzle raised by Bernard Williams芒鈧劉s remark that 芒鈧揵lame operates in a space between coercion and full deliberative cooperation.芒鈧

George Tsai joined the philosophy department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012. From 2013-2014, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works mainly in moral and political philosophy, broadly construed. The topics of his current research include: rational persuasion, blame, trust, exploitation, disgust, proleptic interaction, state communication, and structural oppression. His publications include 芒鈧揜ational Persuasion as Paternalism芒鈧 (Philosophy & Public Affairs) and 芒鈧揂n Error Theory for Liberal Universalism芒鈧 (Journal of Political Philosophy). Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information , please call 956-8649.


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Philosophy Department , Mānoa Campus

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Pat Pimental, 956-8649, philo@hawaii.edu, Colloquium Flyer (PDF)

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